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Composition
Study for 'Variations in Blue and Green', photograph, Library of Congress
Variations in Blue and Green, Freer Gallery of Art
The seated figure may be a study for the central figure in Variations in Blue and Green [YMSM 084].
r: Two nudes reclining on a terrace, The Hunterian
Study for 'Variations in Blue and Green', The Hunterian
However, it is one of three similar studies (with r.: Two nudes reclining on a terrace; v.: Two women looking over a terrace [M.0345] and Study for 'Variations in Blue and Green' [M.0346]) that may have been for an independent, but unrealised, figure composition.
Technique
Study for 'Variations in Blue and Green', photograph, Library of Congress
r: Two nudes reclining on a terrace, The Hunterian
The drawing is known only from the photograph in the E. R. and J. Pennell Collection, Library of Congress. It appears similar to the recto of r.: Two nudes reclining on a terrace; v.: Two women looking over a terrace [M.0345].
Last updated: 7th March 2021 by Margaret
